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THIRTIETH OF MAY WILL
BE OBSERVED HERE BY
ETERANS OF THREE WARS
The Daughters Of the Confederacy,
American Red Cross and the Ox
ford Woman's Club Will Partici
pate. The American Legion throughout
(he world will observe Memorial Day
on May 30th. On that day honor
will be paid those who wore the Blue
and the Gray in 1861, those who
wore the Khaki in 1898 and those
who wore the Olive Drab in the
World War. On May the 30th, the
craves of more than 50,000 of our
buddies resting in foreign soil will be
decorated bv American Legion Posts
in Europe, supported by funds contri
buted at home, also on that date, the
graves of over 22,000 of our com
rades whose bodies have been return
ed from Europe and buried in their
native land will be decorated. Fur
thermore, there are in the United
States graves of 25,000 ex-service
men who died since the war, to be
decorated.
Appropriate memorial services will
be held on May ?0th. Program of
these services will be published later-
Program for the day will include
services at Mt. Creek Church and
decoration of graves there and at the
Eakes Cemetery. Services will be in
charge of the Oxford Post, American
Legion, assisted by the Granville
Post. The following organizations
will take part: The Daughters of
The Confederacy, American Red
Cross and The Womans Club.
Ex-Service men of the wars of 1861,
18 9 S. and the World War are re
quested to take part in the Memorial
Day parade and attend services at
the cemetery.
ELBERT E. FULLER,
Commanding Oxford Post-
MR. GEO. R. POU IS
THE YOUNGEST PRISON SUPT.
Oxford 3Ian Filled the Position
Longer Than Any One Else. . .
Mr. George Russ Pou, wLo was re
cently appointed suporintendent of
the Penitentiary by Gov. Morrison,
is undoubtedly the youngest man
who ever held the place. He had
been made chief clerk under the Mc
Culloch suprintendency and was in
line. He is a son of Congressman
Edward W. Pou and son-in-law of W.
M. Sanders, member of the prison
board upon the Bickett and Morri
son administrations.
It is worthy of note that the late
William J. Hicks, superintendent of
the Oxford Orphanage, served as
superintendent of the State Prison
longer than any other man. He built
the prison and the stone wall
around it.
A VOICE FROM AFRICA
Mr. and Mrs. Wilber Smith Recover
ing From Their Long Voyage.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilber Smith arriv
ed here last week from Cape Town,
South Africa, somewhat' fatigued
from their long voyage of eight thou
sand miles. They are the guests of
Dr. and Mrs. E. T. White and are the
recipients of many hearty congratu
lations. Mr. Smith is not quite as fleshy as
he was when he left here four years
ago, but he has the ruddy complexion
of an Englishman and has acquired
the accent of a busy Britisher.
Mr. Smith said he had read every
copy of the Public Ledger since he
lefft here four years ago. The paper
yas a month or six weeks old when
it reached him, but he said he enjoy
ed it just the same and read every
word in it, advertisements and all.
THE NEW CITY WELL
IS NEARING COMPLETION
There Will Be Plenty Of Water Here
This Summer.
The contractors stale that they
"ope to finish the city well on Han
cock street by the first of June. The
well is now about 500 feet deep,
mostly through solid rock, with a
now of 40 or 50 gallons of water per
minute.
,he deeper we go the greater is
uie How," said the contractors. "We
nope to obtain a. flow of 100 gallons
Per minute by the first of June. We
are now drilling in a sandstone rock
na the flow will possibly be- more
pH 00 gallons per minute a little
anther down."
IKS. BERGDOLL TELLS OF
BURYING POT OF OLD
Washington, May 16. Mrs. Emma
bergdoll, mother of Grover Berg
'01, draft dodger, told a House in
rfni??115. cmmittee. that she
frr, 1 he $105'00 in gold obtained
"om the treasury in the fall of 1919.
ie refused to give any information
f?lng the burial place, but indi-
Vhiu v.as not as far aW from
1 ladelphia as Hagerstown.
-virs. Bergdoll replied:
thai11 my Possession and buried in
that 5laC6 1 first put " " addinS
that nobody else knew its location.
FAIR WEATHER THIS WEEK
m-odn1111' May 16 Weather
moductions for the week are: South
erX T-and East Gulf states: Gen
WW Ja,lr and temperature some
nat below normal.
nhJnr batte,,y should have watet
PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY TOWN AND COUNTY OWTW.k r ktttt Axrm
A MOST GENEROUS
GIFT TO jlTIE CHILDREN
OF THE OJ
"V- TIT?.
4
A Box Of Mon STATE
Pounds 'Presented
dent R. L. Brown.
On Monday, morning of this week
while Mr. J. Bailey Owen, Grand Mas
ter of the Grand Lodge of Masons,
Gen. B. S. Royster. a member of the
Board of Directors and Mr.. R. L.
Brown, Superintendent of Oxford Or
phanage, were having a conference in
Gen. Royster's office about matters
relating to this great Institution, Mr.
George Roopas came into the office!
in company woth Chief of Police I. H.
Hobgood, and laid upon Gen. Roys
ter's desk a large cigar box, stating
that he wanted to present to the chil
dren of the orphanage sixteen pounds
of money copper money as a gift
from the American Candy Kitchen of
Oxford. Mr. Owen, Gen. Royster and
Mr. Brown thanked him for his gen
erosity and assured him of their ap
preciation of the gift. The Ameri
can .Candy Kitchen is owned and
operated by Mr. George Roopas and
Chappell Brothers and they deserve
much praise for this liberal gift and
the spirit which prompted it.
This sixteen pounds of ruoney a
mounted to twenty-four dollars, and
the form of the gift is unique as well
as liberal. We hope that other mer
chants of Oxford will from time to
time follow the splendid example of
the American Candy Kitchen.
In a very short while after this
gfft was made, other generous friends
of the orphanage contributed enough
in pennies to enable Superintendent
Brown to give ten pennies to each of
the 375 children now in the institu
tion. LIVING COST IS STILL ,
ON THE TOBOGGAN
Building Operations In April Were
the Largest Of Any April In His
tory Except Last Year.
(By Albert Apple)
Cost of living may drop to only
a fourth higher than 1914, but it
will not go lower.
This is "the opinion of John S.
Drum, president of the American
J Bankers' Association, after analyz
ing questionnaires filled in by the
association's members, all over the
United States.
"The minority opinion was that
within two or three years prices
would fall at ast to 1914 levels."
. Business Pick-Ups.
Leather and shoe trades are re
turning to normal, says Herbert T.
Drake, president of New England
Shoe & Leather Association. He
adds: "Consumers of shoes will be
disappointed when they realize that
10, 15'tr even 20 per cent reduction
i V 1 l i
in tutj.siiue worsers wages means
10 to 20 cents per pair in the shoes
he buys."
Automobile production now aver
ages about three-fifths of capacity.
Improving daily. Cheap tires are
turning, one company's prices ave
raging below prices in August 1914.
Nation's bank clearing last week
larger than same week, 1919. Same
is true of total clearings since first
of year, compared with 1919, despite
lower prices. Largest gains are on
Pacific Coast
Building operations in April wie
best of any month since June,' 1920.
Contracts awarded in 25 northeast
ern states totaled $220,886,000,
largest of any April in history except
last year.
Railroad traffic in the west shows
steady increase of business volume.
In April, 28 industrial centers ea$t
of the Mississippi had decreases in
number employed, and 25 centers
showed improvement. Unemploy
ment, country over, increased halfj
of one er cent in April. Inactivity
in lumbering and shipbuilding made
Pacific Coast lose ground.
Elusive Dollars.
Half of the 487 business failures
in April were in the textile trades.
Grocers and butchers came second.
Total liabilities at rate of about
$500,000,000 a year. Failures first
week in May, 312.
Fifty leading stocks rose average
of two points last week. .
Gasoline in 30 leading cities now
averages 23 cents a gallon, against
11 cents Jan. 1, 1915
TOBACCO THE LEAST
HARMFUL OF POISON
Eminent English Scientist Says Same
Amount Each Day Not Harmful.
London, May 16- Tobacco is the
least' harmful of the "four social
poisons, "tea. coffee, tobacco and
alcohol, according to Sir James Can
tile, the eminent surgeon, speaking
here recently.
"Smoke the same amount of to
bacco every day," said Sir James,
"and the heart will become accus
tomed to a certain amount. If one
smokes- less one day than another,
he feels the effect as much as if he
had smoked more."
He said . three days' , abstinence
from smoking would entirely free
the system of nicotine. Sir James
condemned the cigarette-
Approval of advances of $2;000,
000 to assist in. financing cotton ex
ports was announced; today - by the
War Finance Corporation. The cot
top will go forward to Havre, Genoa,
Bremen and Kobe, Japan. - 1 ; -v
-Little Miss Jnlia Winston Taylor
who has been confined to her home
Iseveral days by sickness fs improv
ing.
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; LARGE NUMBER OF -
TAR HEEL DEMOCRATIC )
POSTMASTERS MUST GET OUT
(X; K. Lassiter's Term Expired
r i ' Yesterday. i ;i
E. E. Britton, Washington corres
pondent of the News and Observer
holds out very little hope for Demo
cratic postmasters under the execu
tive order of president Harding. He
says: t
"There will be many North Caro
lisa postmasters who face an expert
ence with the descending knife of a
guillotine this year, for the 1917 con
firmations end a four-years run this
year. So it will be the civil service
test as prescribed by the President
that they will have to meet, and if a
Republican gets among the three
highest, then good-bye postoffice for
them, or if there is a weak spot any
where in their armor,, the Republi
cans who are seeking the Federal
payroll will be hotfooting after
them."
Expiring Postoffice Terms
Four-year terms as postmasters in
North Carolina expiring this year;:
Charlotte, J. H. Weddington, July
21; Dunn, E. T. Lee, July 21; Elm
City, Russell A. Strickland, July 21;
Franklin, Charles L. Ingram, April
16; Franklinton, George J- Whit
tled, July 21; Goldsboro. L. M. Mich
aux, July 21; Greenville, David J.
Whichard, July 21; Hamlet, R B.
Terry, July 21; Henderson, Isaac J.
Young, April 16; Lenoir, V. D. Cur
rie, July 21; Lillington, James ,M.
Fuquay, June 8; Oxford, B. K. Las
siter, May 16; Roxboro, J. W. Noell,
July 21; Selma, W. K. Etheridge,
July 21; Wadesboro, S- S. Lockhart,
July 21; Wilmington, H. McL. Green,
July 21; Newton, F. H. Williams,
July 16. It will be seen that July 21'
is a bad date to meet, and that some
of the possible decapitations are past
due. ;
Postmaster Lassir. f 1
In the above list appears the name
of Mr. B. K. Lassiter, postmaster at
Oxford, whose term of office expired
yesterday. Now it may possibly hap
pen that the large petition which was,
signed here by both Democrats and
Republicans soon after the Presiden
tial election in favor of Republican
candidates (for postmaster, will he
used against Mr. Lassiter. The
Democrats who signed the Republi
can petitions were assured that tbeir
names wof Id hot be used against Mr,
Lassiter. The large list of names
will no doubt have some weight with
Postmaster General Hays. " In any
event Mr. Lassiter can put up a
strong civil service examination and
stand at the head of the list if he so
desires.
GARDEN MART AND SPRING
FLOWER SHOW "WILL BE
HELD THURSDAYMAY 19TH.
The Annual Garden Mart and
Spring Flower Show will be held
Thursday afternoon May 19 th at
four o'clock at the residence of Mrs.
D. G. Brummitt.
All persons having flowers or
vegetables - to exhibit are requested
to have them at Mrs- Brummitt's
residence not later than 10:30 on the
morning of May 19.
Refreshments will be sold for the
benefit of the Garden and Forestry
department of the Woman's Club to
be used by them in making Oxford
more beautiful.
Admission is free and a most cor
dial invitation is extended to the pub
lic to attend.
if raining Thursday the Flower
Show will be held Friday at the same
hour.
LOOK TO THE LEFT
This Simple Method May Save Your
Life.
Have you ever noticed that when
people leave the curb they invariably
look to the right to see if- a car is ap
proaching? The machine that is go
ing to hit one always comes from the
left It is time enough to look to the
right when you get to the middle of
the street. "One should always look
to the left first.
GOOD CHANCE TO '
WIN MEAL TICKET
It Will Be Given To the Member Of
the Oxford Tjsam Who Knocks
the First Home Run On the High
School Athletic Field.
"I take it for granted that the Ox
ford baseball team will arrange to
play on the high school athletic
grounds as soon as it is ready for
use," said a prominent Oxford citi
zen. . "Don't print my name," he said,"
"but I propose to give a $5.00 meal
ticket, good at the Crown Cafe, or
its equivalent to the first member cf
the Oxford ball team who knocks a
home run on the high school athletic
grounds."
PAYING BDLLS BY CHECK
The People Are Doing Business In a
Business Way.
A fact worthy" of notice is the
large number of people in this com
munity who are becoming accustom
ed to paying their bills by checks.
une day recently one of the Oxford
banks handled more than-one thou
sand checks drawn on it.
This did not include checks but of
town and on other local banks
simply the checks drawn by its in
creasing line of depositors.
Mr. B. K. Lassiter returned this
morning from Atlantic City and
Washington.
OXFORD, N. C, TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1921
uut,i utrruKl UNITIES AIL HOME PRltiT
PRELIMINARY FIGURES FROM
THE CENSUS OF AGRICULTURE
FOR, GRAN VILE COUNTY
Issued By
the Bureau Of Census
May 19 1921
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The Director of the Census an -
nounces, subject-to
following figures from th (Wn
of Agriculture for Granville County
North Carolina:
Farms Acreage.
(Jan.. 1,, 1920.)
': 3,503
wmie iarmers . 1,954
voiorea rarmers . . ........ 1 549
Operated by owners .... . . 1571
By tenants 19 23
Total acres 1 '.29 8!604
improved acres 112 556
Horses
Mule3
Cattle
Sheep
Swine
.iswiksiu; uiimais.
3,735
2,371
6,965
820
9,706
Farm Values.
(Value of land and buildings)
January 1, 1920 ...... $12,964,695
April 15, 1910 4,908,503
Increase, 1910-20.
Amunt ....... $8.$56,192
-er cent ,. . ...... . . 164.1
. Principal Crop.
(1919) S
Corn acreage, 25,453; harvested
360,496 bushels.
Wheat, acreage, 5295; harvested
48.111 bushels..
Tobacco acreage, 18.585; harvest
ed 9,455,588 pounds.
Cotton acreage. 2,275; harvested
1193 bales.
LADY HAD SAD EXPERIENCE
WITH WOOLEN FABRICS
PACKED AWAY FOR WINTER
The Moths Ate the Garments ad the
Tobacco Li WTiich Tliey WTere
, Packed.
Now is a - good time to use moth
balls. They cost but little and can
be had from Viny drug store. You
are placing away the blankets used
during winter and early Spring and
some moth balls should be put be
tween them to keep out the moths.
The winter buggy robes and the auto
mobile robes are being packed away
and should have moth balls between
them to keep away the moths. Moth
balls should be placed between wool
en clothes ' and in .the pockets of the
'clothing to protect it :tfV'&v-.:,;
A good lady informs the Public
Ledger that it has been a custom
with her to pack away her-things in
the spring and summer with a layer
to tobacco leaves between them.
She said she had tried that plan for
many years and was successful until
iast year.
"I was never more surprised in my
life than I was last fall when I un
packed "by blankets and other woolen
fabrics and found that the moths had
ruined them," said the lady. "I
could scarcely believe my own eyes,"
continued the lady, "some of the to
bacco leaves were actually cut to
pieces by the moths."
"Where did you get the tobacco?"
we inquired.
"Oh, the tobacco was very nice and
yellow and as thin as tissue paper;
my husband brought it all the way
from South Carolina but I will admit
that I never had any trouble when I
packed my things away with a layer
of Granville county tobacco between
them. They tell me the, goats will
eat South Carolina tobacco, but I
don't know whether it is true or not,
the moths certainly will eat it."
JOHN J. PERSHING IS THE
NEW CHIEF OF STAFF
OF AMERICAN ARMY
General James Harbord, Pershing's
Right Hand Man in France Will Be
Assistant; "Black Jack" to Train
Regular Army and Organized Re
serves. (Washington Special)
Selection of General-John J. Persh
ing to be chief of staff of the army
is announced by Secretary Weeks.
General Pershing will assume his
new duties July 1, succeeding Major
General Peyton C- March. His as
sistant will be Major General James
G. Harboard. who was General Per
shing's principal staff assistant in
France before he assumed command
of the service of supply.
As chief of staff, Secretary Weeks
said; General Pershing will direct
training of the regular army and or
ganized reserves, which he will com
mand the event of active field op
erations before his retirement. He
will retain the duties recently as
signed to him as chief of the war
staff now being organized.
BARACAS vTLL RENDER
PROGRAM IN THE BAPTIST
CHURCH TOMORROW EVENING
Best Music Talent Of the Community
. Will Participate.
The Baptist Baraca class will con
duct the prayer meeting in the Sun
day school room of the church to
morrow evening. Upon motion of
Judge Devin it was decided to have a
brief program in connection with its
prayer meeting. Mr. M- P. Chamblee
was appointed chairman of a com
mittee to look after the musical fea
ture. There will also be three min
ute talks by 'some of our best speak
ers. The public is cordially invited-
HEAR AARON SAPIRO
IN HENDERSON TOMORROW
Aaron Sapiro, the noted authority
on cooperative marketing will speak
in the court house at Henderson to
morrow afternoon at 3 -o'clock.
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J 0LI ENGLISH MAY DAY FETE
r KATURES OF THE OXPYYR.Ti !
1 HIGH SCHOOL' COMMENCEMENT I
L, .
i XO Meld n Gwen Friday
AffPmnnn Mottot
1 a i Afternoon, May 27.
old Enghsn May day fete rem -
j miscent of the days of good Queen
ux ue icaiure or me HJxtord
iign school commencement. Ac -
cording to Anglo-Saxon tradition,
noble lords and ladies were wont to
lay aside the dignity of their high es -
tate in the May-time and gather with
j 1 , - "
snepnerd lads, dairy maids, and other
uii me viuage green to
crown ye fair queen 0 May." The
smgmgof spirited rounds, the perfor
mance-c-f dances in which high and
low alike toofcpart, and the winding
01 me May-poie sail, helped to make
merry in honor of the queen. Not
infrequently tfce-oiirt jesters ap
peared to add to the gayety of the oc
casion. , v ;t
Meredith, Flora &afcflonald, Queen's.
State College, and 'many other North
Carolina Colleges have been staging
elaborate May day, fetes for several
years. This year the spirit of cele
bration has extended to a number of
the larger high schools. The Oxford
celebration will be staged on the
Cooper green on Friday afternoon.
May 27, at 5:30. ,, If the weather
should prove inclement,) the perfor
mance will be postponed until Mon
day afternoon at the same hour. The
program follows:
Ye Order Of , Events.
1 Procession. y
2 Crowning o'ye Queen.
3 Welcome, Sweet Springtime.
4 Ye Irish Fling.
5 Ye Rye Dance.
6 Ye Highland Fling.
7 Ye Cuckoo Chorus.
8 Dance o'ye Milk Maids.
. 9 Ye Spirit o' Spring.
10 Winding Ye May-pole.
Ye Persons.
Queen o'May Miss Margaret Davis.
Maid o'Honor Miss Zulene Evans.
Crown-bearer Miss Mary McFar-
land.
Pages Masters Baldy Williams and
Dick Lewis.
Spirit o'Play Miss Julia Brent
Hicks.
Queen Elizabeth Miss Inez Walters.
Sir Walter Raleigh Mr. Henry Hunt.
Heralds Messrs. Joe Floyd. R. M.
Currin, Jr., Chas. Easton, and
Thomas Roycter . - ,.:
Jesters Messrs. Irvine Jackson, Will
Hicks, Edward Mitchell and Frank
Smith-
Pages to Queen Elizabeth Messrs.
Jack Brinkley and Cam . Easton.
Lords, attendants, milkmaids, dances,
etc
OXFORD DEFEATS HENDERSON
The Henderson Babies Get Mad and
Quit the Game.
The Oxford ball team engaged the
Henderson team . on their own
grounds last Friday. The weather
was unfit for play and the game nev
A
er should have been called.
Four innings had5 gone a scoreless
for both sides. The trouble arose in
the fifth . innings. It was Harris'
double to right that precipitated the
row. Henderson maintained that
the ball went outfeide the first sock,
making it a foul. The umpire did
not see it in this light and the Oxford
team scored one run.
! Regardless of the righteousness or
the unrighteousness of the course
Henderson took in withdrawing from
the field, the incident was most un
fortunate, and is regretted by fans
and lovers of clean honest sports on
both sides.
Withdrawal from the field is not
the legally constituted method of
kicking on the trend of a game- A
formal protest to the league officials
would have been the proper method
of settling the affair.' '
Score by innings: ' ' R. H. E.
Oxford . . . . . 0 0 0 0 11 3 1
Henderson ... OO:;) x 0 3 1
TWO BABIES GO TO SEA
IN A LOOSE CRAFT
Drift All Night and Land On the
Shore Of Hyde County. 1
(Kinston Free Press)
Harry Long and Hayes Farrish
Creary", six and five years of age re
spectively, wei$ modern babes in the
woods recentlyv when they were lost
nearly two days in the wilds of Hyde
County. The boys were playing in a
small boat on a stream near Belhav
en when the craft drifted away from
the shore. They were unperceived.
and their errant ship continued on a
wild voyage that might have been
the little fellows' last. After hours
or aimless drifting across the wide
expanse of water at Belhaven the
boat touched the Hyde County shore,
and the youngsters, exhausted and
frightened, slept curled up in the bottom-
When day broke they, got a
shore and started on foot for home.
' A Sweet Singer Coming.
The Ladies Aid Society of the Ox
ford Baptist Church have secured
Miss Katharine Campbell Johnson for
a song recital on the evening of June
7 th. Miss Johnson possesses a won
derfully rich and sweet contralto
voice and is probably the most popu
lar singer in the state. Oxford is
fortunate in i having the opportunity
to hear her. A full notice of her
recital will appear Ifct er in this paper.
Four Persons Poisoned.
Four persons are dead in Culpep
per, Va., from eating bread in which
arsenic was used instead, of baking
powder. Some of the bread was fed
to a dog and hog and both were kill
ed.
NO. 39
jEASY TO GET LIQUOR
IN . SOME PLACES
I A" , V11 4
fTl-. T 1 . TWIT "
i ar ""V? rrombU
J tlon As Compared With Some Otfc-
; er Places. v
! The nennle nf Orfnrrt
iville County are more or less sWk-
J ed to learn of the large number of
: moonshiners operating in the county
around about. A close observer
estimates that not more than five
1 gallons of moonshine liquor finds
its way to Oxford daily. With the:
-. " J v-ai.ivi uuiijT. Tf 1 LiX lilt?
recent order to curtail the activities
01 tne pronibrtion forces in the
State, the moonshiners will , multiply
rapidly. It is bad enough iiere. to he 1
j sure, but there is a shock in store for
all who read the following extract
rrom tne Philadelphia Press, which
was written by James Leonard Mc
Carthy, a newspaper correspondent
of note at Harrisburg, Pa.:
It is amusing to read of the new
state prohibition act recently passed
in Harrisburg. Prohibition at the
present time is really one immense
joke. The only thing it really pro- :
hibits is the display of the whisky
decanter behind the bar. To my per
sonal knowledge I know of at Jeast
fifteen saloons, some within one or
two blocks of the City Hall, where
it is just as simple a matter to drder
a drink and get it as it was before
prohibition, the only difference being .
the price and quality or the so-called
whisky they serve you.. Some of it
has as strong an ordor of ether as
you would find in an operating room
in a hospital, while some -of ifhe plac
es sell a. mixture that itould take
a chemist to analyze to determine'
what the contents were. !
"Saloonkeepers at the present time
are making more money than they
ever did before so-called prohibition
took effect, and at the same time are
filling hospitals with victims of the
poison they are selling.' U, have pos
itive proof from an inside source that
several of the saloons that are sell
ing liquor pay from $6 to $8 a galloii
for the stuff for which they receive
from thirty-five cents to fifty cents
a drink. That's prohibition.
"Conditions will never change as
long as saloon owners keep on the"
right side of political leaders and
prohibition will never be strictly en
forced as long as the saloonkeepers
continue to "come across." There
-hojnse, denying, facts, as any man
who really wants a drink and has the
price can get it without any. trouble, 'fe
'I recently -went
where -I knew they were selling so-
Anil a J 1 . .
od,nt;u wmsKy ana asked for a thirty-five-cent
drink. The bartender in
formed me that the thirty-five-cent
goods were run out, but that he had
fifty-cent stuff, but If I was willing
to wait a few minutes the thirty-five-cent
goods would be ready, as
the boss was down stairs making
some up- There is no still required
to make the stuff the : majority of
the places are selling; they merely
mix whatever drugs it requires to
gether and it is ready foi ' serving.
Prohibition has not prohibited in
the least. The only thing it has
done is fill the pockets of politi
cians, raised the price of so-called
whisky and created new patients for
the hospital." ' ." ,. :kL
SQUIRE A. P. OVERTON TAKES
THE RADIUM TREATMENT
An Eating Sore Of Four Years
Standing Disappears From His
Neck.
The eating sore, or cancer,
which formed on the neck of Squire
A. P. Overton four years ago and .
gave him much concern allthese
years, has passed away at the touch
of radium. , .
As a last resort, Squire Overton
went over to Richmond a month ago
to consult Dr. Rudd. The doctor ex
amined the sore and told the Squire
that he could give him immediate
relief and guaranteed a cure within "
a month. The Squire took out his
check book and dared the doctor to,
do it. The doctor gave the sore
one light application of radium and
told Squire Overton to go home, and
as he departed the doctor said: "Be
very careful with yourself; you have
$5000 on your neck." 1
The deep sore on the Squire's neck
has healed up, and the scar is not
larger than a ten cent piece. -
Mrs. Hargrove's Brother Dead.
Mr. Enoch Ferebee Lamb, brother
of Mrs. Mamie Hargrove, of Oxford,
died suddenly Saturday in Roanoke,
Va., where he; was visiting his son,
Tazwell Hargrove Lamb. He was a
native of Camden county and one of
the prominent men of Eastern Carolina-
Besides his profession of law,
he for many years edited The Falcon,
a weekly published at Elizabeth City,
and took a prominent part in politics,
in Masonic circles, in the business life
of his city and in church work, being
an' active. Presbyterian. His wife,
Ella Creecy, was the daughter of the
late Col. R. B. Creecy for many years
known as "the nestor of North Caro
lina journalism," and publisher of
much interesting historical litera
ture. ' . ...
Governor Cameron Morrison
Friday ordered a reward of. $250 for
the capture of Carl Tilley, wanted by
the , Greensboro authorities for the
murder of Policeman W. T. McCuis
ton in that city a week ago. : Similar
dewards have bees made by munici
pal and county, authorities in Gull-:
ford county, . ? ; ' r;
Mrs. Ezzell has gone to Dunn to
attend the marriage of Mr. Ezzells
itzisz. ' ......
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